The pineapple from domestication to commodification : re-presenting a global fruit / edited by Victoria Avery and Melissa Calaresu.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Avery, Victoria, editor.

Calaresu, Melissa, editor.

Series:

Proceedings of the British Academy ; 273.

Proceedings of the British Academy, 0068-1202 ; 273

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pineapple industry.

Physical Description:

x, 302 pages : illustrations (some color), (some maps) ; 29 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Distribution:

Liverpool : Distributed by Liverpool University Press, [2025]

Place of Publication:

London : Published by the British Academy, 2025.

Summary:

The pineapple's 'discovery' by European colonisers in the late fifteenth century and its remarkable global trajectory - from an early modern object of rarity, desire, and horticultural innovation to a cheap, canned consumable and fair-trade logo today - is a story of modern globalisation. The Pineapple from Domestication to Commodification is a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary volume intended to provoke timely debate and generate radical rethinking of an overly familiar fruit with associations from luxury to kitsch. It deliberately problematizes the pineapple by investigating understudied tensions between its representational power and the historical and political contexts of its worldwide production and consumption. This connects the global and local at the heart of contemporary debates about the nature and origins of our food. It will have cross-disciplinary appeal for scholars of politics, economics, history, plant sciences, food, and material culture as well as for broader audiences interested in food, gardening, the environment, and visual arts.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-295) and index.

ISBN:

9781836245933

1836245939

OCLC:

1523907265